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Critical care codes fall hard from COVID boom, resetting trend curve

Medicare utilization of CPT critical care code 99291 and add-on code 99292 jumped higher during the pandemic years. That bump has subsided, however, and a review of 10 years of progress in critical care utilization suggests the codes have swiftly adjusted to pre-COVID levels.

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